ticulate wisdom of great knowledge, he thought of himself as "most ignorant." So he began the search for someone who is wiser than he by questioning politicians, craftsmen, and poets. Every time the person stated that he had some wisdom or absolute knowledge. Socrates found that all men did have great wisdom in their fields, but always they thought that their expertise in one field allows them to speak with great confidence in many other fields, in which they were not proficient at all.
             In each encounter, Socrates acknowledged that he would rather admit that he knows nothing, than to be inflated by a false sense of his own great wisdom. Consequently, he concluded, he truly is wiser than other men because he does not think he knows what he does not know: "I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know" (21d).
             By questioning the people Socrates made a lot of enemies, they thought that Socrates wanted to belittle them, to prove they knew nothing when he was just curious and wanted to find the wisest man. They thought if he was asking all these questions in their field of interest he might be an expert in everything, some of them were not so wise and were afraid that Socrates might expose it. Socrates rejected any expertise and interpreted the oracle by saying that the wisest of men are men like Socrates who simply accept that their wis
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